Agree. Though I don’t think Turing ever intended that test to be used. I think what he wanted to accomplish with his paper was to operationalize “intelligence”. When he published it, if you asked somebody “Could a computer be intelligent?”, they’d have responded with a religious argument about it not having a soul, or free will, or consciousness. Turing sneakily got people to look past their metaphysics, and ask the question in terms of the computer program’s behavior. THAT was what was significant about that paper.
Agree. Though I don’t think Turing ever intended that test to be used. I think what he wanted to accomplish with his paper was to operationalize “intelligence”. When he published it, if you asked somebody “Could a computer be intelligent?”, they’d have responded with a religious argument about it not having a soul, or free will, or consciousness. Turing sneakily got people to look past their metaphysics, and ask the question in terms of the computer program’s behavior. THAT was what was significant about that paper.